Cleveland Bridge in Bath, built in 1826.
It needed a toll house. In order to maintain the absolute symmetry of his neoclassical design, the architect, Henry Goodridge, designed not just one but four buildings, in the form of miniature temples. Number 1 was used to collect tolls, the rest let as shops or dwellings. The bridge was taken over by the Council in the mid-1920s and the tolls were abolished in 1927. Three of the "temples" are still houses, the fourth is a ceramics studio.
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